Footnote 513: Commons Journals, 2nd and 3rd Philip and Mary.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 514: Commons Journals, 2nd and 3rd Philip and Mary.—Noailles to the Constable, October 31.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 515: Commons Journal. Noailles says that the queen demanded the fifteenths, and that the Commons refused to grant them. The account in the Journals is confirmed by a letter of Lord Talbot to the Earl of Shrewsbury.—Lodge's Illustrations, vol. i. p. 207.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 516: Mr. Speaker declared the queen's pleasure to be spoken yesterday, for to depart with the first-fruits and tenths; and my Lord Cardinal spake for the tithes and impropriations of benefices to be spiritual.—Commons Journals, November 20: 2nd and 3rd Philip and Mary.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 517: Lords Journals.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 518: 2nd and 3rd Philip and Mary, cap. iv.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 519: Commons Journals.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 520: Ibid. The temper of the opposition may be gathered from the language of a pamphlet which appeared on the accession of Elizabeth.
The writer describes the clergy as "lads of circumspection, and verily filii hujus sæculi." He complains of their avarice in inducing the queen, "at one chop, to give away fifty thousand pounds and better yearly from the inheritance of her crown unto them, and many a thousand after, unto those idle hypocrites besides."
He then goes on:—